Tottenham Talk Wednesday 7th
Tottenham Talk Wednesday 7th
Nobody believed he would ride another Tour de France, few believed he would get back to that level but he returned to a team who believed in him and given a late selection, he has repaid that with two stage wins already and is wearing the green jersey (top sprinter).
He sits now on 33 stage wins now, he won again Tuesday and is just 2 behind the great Eddie Merckx.
Isle of Man born Cavendish is simply the greatest sprinter ever.
When in the wrong environment, it is an extra mountain to climb to reach the top, to produce your best.
Cav moved from the wrong environment to the right environment, to a place where they believe in him.
Footballers are no different, they need to be in a positive success orientated environment, which we as fans have a duty to help create, if we really support the club.
I used to attend every week, but the eye condition I have had for 11 years now and lately my heart failure has prevented that these days.
Others live too far away or can't afford all the travel as well as a ticket to attend a game, when we are allowed of course.
They are not lesser fans in any shape or form, despite the rhetoric from negative fans, as one of my previous articles demonstrated.
There are more fans worldwide who do not attend than those who do and all are equally as important, if not more important and can help portray a success orientated perception surrounding the club.
Commercial income relies on the fanbase who don't attend rather than the fan who does so they actually produce more income for the club.
Commercial income is greater than matchday income.
Quite frankly, the fan that does that is a far greater supporter of the club than those who are negative and want the club to win, despite they actively working against that themselves.
Another Mark Cavendish story from a previous Tour de France, the biggest bike race in the world.
Cav is a sprinter, he likes the flat stages for the sprinters, he does not like the mountain stages because his specialist fitness isn't about cycling up huge hills.
What happens to all these sprinters and team riders who are tired or who are resting?
They form their own group at the back and take things at their pace, letting the main field go ahead.
There is a time limit. Once the winner is over the line, they have to all finish within a certain time of that or they are eliminated.
Roughly they take the time it took the winner, then add 25% of that time and that is the time limit everyone has to finish the stage by.
One year Cavendish was struggling, he was on his own at the very back and was clearly going to be out of time.
His team director and other personnel in the car were urging him to stop, get off the bike and take himself out of the race.
Cavendish refused, he knew he was going to be out of time but he was adamant he was going to finish the stage, as I say, knowing full well he was going to eliminated on time and not allowed to start the following day.
He said he had too much respect for the race to quit.
That takes me back to the Europa League last season and our players effectively quitting.
That's what they did to Mauricio Pochettino, they quit for him, then they quit for Mourinho too.
I'm sorry but you don't just give it everything only when it is on your terms, just like supporting Tottenham, it shouldn't be done only when it is on your terms.
Where was the respect for the fans?
Totally absent, those players that day, despite what they might say, couldn't give a toss about the fans, only themselves and their terms.
England goalkeeper Jordon Pickford has been using a sports psychologist to improve his game and he looks a far more commanding and safer keeper for it.
Mentality matters.
How are you going to change mentality if you don't work at it, crossing your fingers and hoping for improvement over time is amateurish today, yet that is what we do.
Most of you don't believe in mentality, most of you dismiss it but then most of you don't know how success is achieved.
You can't wait for individual players to do something, they can't see they have a problem, thus aren't going to fix it.
Fixing it should be compulsory.
The same as our negative fans should fix themselves, but listen to them, they don't have the ability to see they are part of the problem.
It has taken Dele a season not playing under Mourinho to kick him into doing something about his laziness.
If you have seen the recent clip of him, he takes responsibility for not playing, saying it was his fault.
He mentions his mentality and talks about now trying to be the best he can be.
He has got himself toned and fit after looking bulky and overweight at the end of last season.
A Dele that now wants to perform is a different kettle of fish to the Dele we have seen for the last few years.
I predict he will have an excellent season and it will all be down to a change in mentality, a growing up, a realization that he was wasting his career.
Another reason to look forward to the start of the season.
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